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...Liberty Street Gospel Church of Lapeer, Mich. (pop. 6,000) seats 280 people, but 400 crowded in one night last week. They stood six-deep at the back to pay a tribute to the Rev. Frank S. Hemingway-a man one Lapeerite called "as near a saint as anyone can be without being...
Pastor Hemingway was 24 when he came to town 33 years ago to take over the Lapeer Methodist Protestant Church. He was what the townspeople called a "visiting preacher"; he never forgot the people who lived too far away or were too sick to come to church regularly. When radio came along in the '205, he determined to expand his job at the Methodist church into a mission of the air. He tried to interest nearby cities such as Flint and Saginaw in setting up a broadcasting station strictly for religious programs, but he got no backing. Frank Hemingway...
...made of bicycle rims, and even a dog walking under it would joggle the station off frequency, but he kept it going two or three hours a day, six days a week with scripture, organ music, singing, and talks to shut-ins. Hemingway called his station WMPC after Lapeer's Methodist Protestant Church (which later became the Liberty Street Gospel Church...
...last week the deal was off. A shocked Circuit Court in Lapeer County, after listening to the testimony of the children, convicted all four parents of illegal cohabitation, released the mothers to take care of their children, held the fathers pending sentence...
...whom "objected to being sterilized, to no avail." More data which shocked Michigan: During the past four years 14 boys and 47 girls of the Wayne County Training School have been rendered incapable of passing on their defects to a new generation. At the larger Lapeer Home & Training School 216 males and 688 females have similarly been sterilized. Practically all this has happened under Michigan's 1929 law permitting sterilization in certain cases.* Parents may ask that their children be thus handled. Or the superintendent of a tax-supported institution may do so. Accused with Mrs. Mildred H. Ainsworth...